The northwest corner of Illinois curls up like a leaf that refuses to lie flat, a patchwork quilt of rolling hills dotted with small towns where antiques shops and boutiques beckon. An old stagecoach trail winds past farm fields and wineries, loving...

"Just because you have dementia doesn't mean you're automatically a vegetable and don't know what's going on," Assistant State's Attorney Michael Fisher said during closing arguments of Barajas' discharge hearing Thursday. "If you can drive from Han...

• Jose G. Mancera of Hanover Park received the Sixty Plus Elderlaw Board of Directors Award from the Sixty Plus, Inc., Elderlaw Clinic at Western Michigan University-Thomas M. Cooley Law School. The live-client clinic serves Lansing, Michigan, area ...

Now that 84-year-old Ramon Barajas of West Chicago has been found incompetent to stand trial in a criminal proceeding for last April's death of Christina Jankowski a DuPage County judge must decide how he spends the rest of his days. Barajas, of the...

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story should have read that a high number of students at Abbott Middle School have high anxiety. Behavioral issues in students can stem from a plethora of difficulties in their home and family lives, a...

An East Dundee resident was hospitalized with burn injuries and three cats were taken to an animal hospital after a fire broke out at a family's house Saturday morning, authorities said. Paramedics with the East Dundee Fire Protection District took...

A Hanover Park man with a murder conviction in his past now has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in an armed robbery. Brian O'Dell, 39, of the 4700 block of Zeppelin Drive, was sentenced Friday in McHenry County Court after a jury ...

On Tuesday, March 20, the McDonald's restaurant was taken over by 28 Greenbrook Elementary School teachers and administrative staff excited to serve freshly prepared meals to students and their families. Teachers also handed out orders, cleaned tabl...